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Let the beauty of what we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

-Rumi

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Airport Security In the airport I got wanded, though not by a fairy princess. I had to remove my shoes, prove they were not twin bombs. But the strangest scene I saw that day was where random checks delayed the suspicious- the grey lady in her wheelchair and the toddler boy tugged from his mother's hand, pulled through the metal detector's arch. She tried to follow but was restrained by two guards who grasped her arms as she yelled, "But I told him not to talk to strangers!" The child wailed bloody murder. A female guard patted the boy all over, although he did not giggle. I myself went on profiling terrorists. ---------------They were so obvious.

David Ray

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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president (1809-1865)